Monday, May 07, 2007

Free Comic Book Day...

...has come and gone! Yup, for those who missed it, it was Saturday, May 5th. For my part, I spent it at the fine Toronto comicshop The Beguiling, signing books and doing free sketches for anyone who wanted one (Spider-man and Venom seemed the most popular requests). The weather was great, the turnout was even better and I had such a good time drawing in the sun that I got a farmer's tan. Thanks to everyone who came out and looked for me (hey, Doodlers!) -- I hope you all had a good time and got some nice comics to take home.

Below is my contribution to one of the fine books being offered for FCBD, the excellent Comics Festival comic. Its a one-pager, written by Brian Mclachlan, pencilled by me and inked by Darwyn Cooke. I've posted it here in black and white, but its printed in full colour in the free comic -- maybe that will make you hunt down a copy!

Incidentally, this is the 2nd year that the three of us have collaborated on a page for the Comics Festival book. You can check out our previous effort in an older post from my blog here.

Thanks, Don! Nice to hear from you again. Sorry you missed out on it -- but I'm sure you can find a copy of it at a comic store near you. Or you can pick it up from the beguiling next time you're in Toronto.

Thanks, Zeno. I'm actually hard at work right now on a graphic novel of short stories that I'm both writing and drawing. They're all similar in approach to that previous story, "Night Time" that I posted here. Right now, its planned as a book of 5 short stories, each about 30 pages in length. I'm very excited about the book and it's "my baby" as it were, but its taking a long time to do since I also have to complete illustration assignments and such as well.

Hopefully, I should be able to share a few pages once I get closer to completion.

Doodlers: Thanks, guys! I really enjoyed meeting you at last at the FCBD event. Hope you had a good time as well and got some nice comics out of it too.

Jason: thanks, Jason. Glad you liked the sketch -- it was the last one of the day so I was worried it might have been a bit wonky. Hope you had a good time at FCBD too -- looks to me you got some excellent sketches from all the other artists that donated their time!

Please note that I do not do accept any private commissions (comic character sketches, family portraits, etc). I also do not sell any prints of my work online. Sketches and prints can usually be purchased at events that I am personally attending. Thanks for your understanding.

Upcoming Appearances

I'm looking forward to making my first appearance at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival this year. Should be a fun time - I'll be doing sketches, selling some prints and trying to enjoy the maritime weather!